"Mrs. Leigh is with me--much pleased with the place, and less so with me for parting with it, to which not even the price can reconcile her. Your parcel has not yet arrived--at least the _Mags_. &c.; but I have received Childe Harold and The Corsair. "I believe both are very correctly printed, which is a great satisfaction. "I thank you for wishing me in town; but I think one's success is most felt at a distance, and I enjoy my solitary self-importance in an agreeable sulky way of my own, upon the strength of your letter--for which I once more thank you, and am, very truly, &c. "P.S. Don't you think Buonaparte's next _publication_ will be rather expensive to the Allies? Perry's Paris letter of yesterday looks very reviving. What a Hydra and Briareus it is! I wish they would pacify: there is no end to this campaigning." [Footnote 12: It will be recollected that he had announced The Corsair as "the last production with which he should trespass on public patience for some years."] * * * * * LETTER 160. TO MR. MURRAY. "Newstead Abbey, February 5. 1814. "I quite forgot, in my answer of yesterday, to mention that I have no means of ascertaining whether the Newark _Pirate_ has been doing what you say.[13] If so, he is a rascal, and a _shabby_ rascal too; and if his offence is punishable by law or pugilism, he shall be fined or buffeted. Do you try and discover, and I will make some enquiry here. Perhaps some _other_ in town may have gone on printing, and used the same deception. "The _fac-simile_ is omitted in Childe Harold, which is very awkward, as there is a _note_ expressly on the subject. Pray _replace_ it as _usual_.